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The Steam Deck Is Our Path To Ending Microsoft's Death Grip On Personal Computers  Digg

Linux Foundation and OpenSSF to Help Developers Navigate EU Cyber Resilience Act  ADT Magazine

HandBrake 1.9.1 Open-Source Video Transcoder Improves AV1 Video Decoding  9to5Linux

Along with the recently reviewed ARCTIC Freezer 4U-M for Ampere Altra, ARCTIC Cooling had also recently sent over their ARCTIC Freezer 4U-SP5 heatsink for cooling AMD EPYC 9004/9005 server processors within 4U rackmount height requirements. This cooler does a very good job at keeping even 400 Watt processors running well.

Mesa 25.0-rc3 is out today as a rather large weekly release candidate to Mesa 25.0 that will be debuting as stable later this month...

How to use Linux without ever touching the terminal  ZDNet

7 tools to make your Linux desktop look amazing  XDA Developers

Here's Linux running inside a PDF, running inside a browser, running on a Windows PC  PC Gamer

Linux 6.13 Performance For 250Hz vs. 1000Hz Timer Frequency Comparison  Phoronix

Given the recent patch proposal to raise the Linux kernel's default timer frequency from 250Hz to 1000Hz, I ran some fresh benchmarks looking at the 250Hz vs. 1000Hz comparison on some modern desktop hardware...

In addition to the recent release of SysVinit 3.14 and systemd continuing to tack on new features, the GNU Shepherd system/user service manager written in Guile Scheme is out today with a new release...

14 Commands to Display System Information in Linux. | by Andrey Byhalenko | Feb, 2025  Medium

4 Reasons Why Linux Mint Is the Best Windows 11 Replacement  How-To Geek

How to Set Up a VPN on Linux Using 3 Quick Methods  Privacy Hub

EndeavourOS Mercury Arrives As A Low-Key Release  It's FOSS News

Linux 6.15 To Bring More Improvements To DRM Panic "Screen of Death"  Phoronix

Now that the Linux 6.14 merge window has passed, new feature material aiming for the Linux 6.15 kernel is beginning to get ready for staging in DRM-Next ahead of that next merge window opening up around the end of March. Sent out today was the first batch of drm-misc-next changes for Linux 6.15 that include more work on DRM Panic for that Linux equivalent to Microsoft Windows' "Blue Screen of Death" as well as changes to the other smaller Direct Rendering Manager drivers...

Android 16'S Linux Terminal Now Capable Of Running Graphical Applications  MENAFN.COM

KDE Plasma 6.3 Arrives With New Settings and Digital Art Focus  MSN

A patch has been proposed for the Linux kernel to add a C1 demotion knob via /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/c1_demotion for more control over lower power state handling for recent Xeon Scalable processors. This C1 demotion knob can help with the performance of some workloads for Intel Xeon servers but at the cost of increased power consumption...